Digg Reboot
reboot.digg.com
Digg - The front page of the internet, now with superpowers

Not much info yet, but I grew up on Digg, so I’m cautiously optimistic. Probably no Fediverse support, but honestly, any Reddit alternative is a win. Really hoping for real API access and third-party apps.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    It would be neat if they could get activityhub Integration. Then we can have Tumblr/digg pop up.

    • JayGray91@fedia.io
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Instances admins would start to advocate to defederate from them just like with Meta’s Threads IMO.

  • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    4 hours ago

    With any luck, they’ll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      10·
      7 hours ago

      Yeah, isn’t that what everyone wants?

      A website where you talk to people and a robot with no oversight shows up and changes what you say, or silences you, or prevents you from talking to certain people.

      At the same time though, I don’t care if billionaires play rock and sock em robots with companies. It just kind of sucks for the people that work at those companies, being tools of a game for rich people to play.

  • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    20 minutes ago

    The original Digg was an important site for me personally between 2005-2009, but only in that early era and mostly as a bridge between my Fark and Reddit eras. I honestly can’t see it competing with Reddit’s established user base or being as no-nonsense and free as Lemmy. I don’t think it will gain traction and the AI aspect will turn a lot of people off from it.

  • ORG2001@lemmy.radioEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    I wonder what they will do differently, this time around. This space is quite crowded already, and getting eye-balls is hard work !

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    110·
    9 hours ago

    I’m rooting for them simply because I want to see Reddit and them fight. I’m not going to be switching, because I’m basically done with centralized ultracapitalist bullshit for personal use.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    61·
    8 hours ago

    Too late now…

    Fedi4life

    This digg is set up is to catch the normies exiting reddit so they don’t end up here IMHO

    Just another corpo set up

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Some of us already left Lemmy or never joined, for the likes of Mbin or PieFed (or eventually Sublinks?).

      Long live the Fediverse.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    42·
    8 hours ago

    Why would you expect an aggregator-and-comment site bought and rebranded by reddit-cofounder O’Hanian to end up significantly different than his other aggregator-and-comment site?